Fitted wardrobes and bedroom furniture
The same workshop, the same carcasses and the same fitters, in a different room. Built wall to wall and floor to ceiling, including round the slope in a loft bedroom.
Most of the people we build wardrobes for came to us for a kitchen first. It is the same job: measure an awkward room, make cabinets that fit it exactly, hang doors on it and scribe the whole thing to walls that are not straight.
The difference is what goes inside. A kitchen is mostly about reach and sequence. A wardrobe is about how you actually keep clothes, which varies enormously between two people sharing the same room, so we spend the design time working out how much hanging, how much shelf and how many drawers each of you needs.
What goes in them
Interiors are made to a plan the same way the cabinets are, so you are not choosing from a list of modules.
| Fitting | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Full hanging | Coats, dresses, anything over about 1.4m. Needs the full height |
| Double hanging | Shirts and folded trousers, two rails one above the other |
| Drawers | Dovetailed, soft-close, usually behind a door so the front stays quiet |
| Shoe racks | Angled shelves at the base, or pull-out trays if the run is deep |
| Pull-out rail | For a narrow section that would otherwise be dead |
| Lighting | LED strip on a door switch, so it comes on when you open it |
Wardrobes we have made
Different rooms, different problems.
Questions about wardrobes
The ones that decide the design.
Do fitted wardrobes actually hold more than freestanding ones?
Considerably, and it is mostly about the top and the sides. A freestanding wardrobe stops at about two metres and leaves a dust shelf above it, and it cannot sit against a chimney breast or under a sloping ceiling.
A fitted run goes wall to wall and floor to ceiling, so on a typical bedroom wall you gain roughly a third more hanging and shelf space in the same footprint.
Can you build round a sloping ceiling?
Yes, and it is one of the better reasons to have them made. A loft room or a dormer bedroom has awkward triangles of space at the eaves that no freestanding furniture can use. We cut the carcasses to the slope and put drawers or a low hanging rail in the part you cannot stand up in.
Sliding or hinged doors?
Sliding if the room is tight, because a hinged door needs 600mm of clear floor in front of it and a sliding one needs none. Hinged if you want to see the whole interior at once, which matters more than people expect when you are looking for one specific shirt.
Sliding doors also cost more for the same run, because the track and the door construction are doing more work.
Same visit, same tape measure
If you are having a kitchen done and thinking about the bedrooms, say so and we will measure both while we are there.
The workshop
Unit 1 & 2, Bootham Lane Industrial Estate, Bootham LaneDunscroft, Doncaster
South Yorkshire DN7 4JU
Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm
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